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May 22(nd)
Moral education refers to the activities that exert moral influence on the educated purposefully, including improving moral consciousness and understanding, cultivating moral sentiment, exercising moral will, establishing moral belief, cultivating moral quality and forming moral habits. Children in junior high school are in the combination period and reorganization period of moral development, which is also the key period for the formation of behavioral habits. Suhomlinski said that teachers in every subject should, without exception, find out the possibility of moral education and world outlook education for students in this subject and give full play to its educational role.
First, the importance of moral education in English teaching
English teachers should play a more unique role in teaching and educating people, because English teachers have a better understanding of the political, cultural, historical and economic conditions of western countries. They can combine the reality of China, aim at the ideological problems of the class students, and carry out ideological education of comparative culture between China and the West in English teaching. Through various activities, they can help students get in touch with existing life experiences, awaken students' similar life experiences, and let them pass the comparison and experience. Learning to look at and analyze problems from multiple levels and angles can effectively improve students' understanding, recognition and conviction of correct values, thus completing the task of "helping students understand the differences between the world and Chinese and Western cultures, broaden their horizons, cultivate patriotism, form a healthy outlook on life, and lay a good foundation for their lifelong learning" in English curriculum standards.
Second, how to infiltrate moral education in English teaching
1. Infiltrate moral education for the purpose of English learning
Although students have been learning English since primary school, in fact, they are at a loss about the purpose of learning English: most students have never considered this issue, but they have to study because of the school curriculum; Some are to improve their self-cultivation; Some like to listen to English songs and watch American dramas to respect British and American culture; Some are for studying abroad in the future; Some are for the convenience of communicating with foreigners in the future.
At this time, as an English teacher, it is very necessary to combine what they have learned in teaching and infiltrate moral education to help students establish correct concepts. For example, through learning, students know that English is one of the most widely used languages in the world, but at the same time they also learn the language with the largest number of Chinese speakers.
At this time, I gave the students an assignment, "Since Chinese is the most widely used language in the world, why doesn't Chinese have as great international influence as English?" After class, the students found that the early British colonists invaded Asia, Africa and Latin America militarily, politically and economically, and then penetrated into all fields of life, resulting in English becoming the most powerful language in the world today. There are 75 countries in the world that use English as the official language. At this time, teachers can stimulate students' patriotic enthusiasm in the classroom, and guide students to think that the purpose of learning English should be to learn from developed countries better, to take the initiative in the ever-changing information age, and to build China into a prosperous modern power. Only in this way can we improve the status of our motherland in the world and finally make our mother tongue more popular all over the world.
2. Excavate moral education elements in teaching materials
Moral education infiltration is a gradual process. To make moral education infiltration successful, teachers must seize the opportunity to stimulate students' moral thinking. Many vivid people and events in the textbook can resonate with students' thoughts and emotions, and these materials contain many moral education materials, such as the struggle experiences of Bill Gates and Helen Keller and the American President George W.?
The story of Washington's childhood and the outstanding deeds of Nightingale, a female nurse. These texts are permeated with ideological and moral factors, paying attention to students' emotions and integrating ideological education into language teaching have a strong infectious effect on students' physical and mental development and the formation of good moral quality.
Another notable feature of the textbook is cultural teaching, which gradually spreads from classroom and family to all aspects of society, gradually introduces the social and cultural background knowledge of China and the West, consciously lets students know the differences between English culture and China culture, enhances students' awareness of cross-cultural communication, and improves students' sensitivity and ability to identify the similarities and differences of outdoor culture.
For example, the textbook introduces some traditional festivals in China and the West. At this time, our teachers should not just follow the book, but should help students trace back to the different origins and different cultural connotations of these festivals. For example, Christmas commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, and the Mid-Autumn Festival in China originated from the legend of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon.
3. Moral education is based on life and rooted in the theme of social life.
Most of the contents in the new textbooks come from life, such as environmental protection, safety education, charity, voluntary service and so on, which we are very familiar with, and are closely related to our lives. For example, the textbook introduces Chinese and western food culture and habits, and students can realize that food customs are actually a kind of culture through learning.
Diet is not only a matter of eating and drinking enough, it is also rich in important etiquette in different cultural backgrounds. China people are hospitable and often invite relatives and friends to dinner to enhance their intimate relationship. Westerners go Dutch even when they get up for dinner. Through the study of these units, students not only understand the etiquette culture of Chinese and western food, but also help to improve their comprehensive humanistic quality.
For another example, when students are learning English idioms and proverbs, teachers can also assign extended homework to collect English idioms and proverbs at the same time. English idioms and proverbs are the summary of various experiences and understandings of western nationalities in their long-term life and social practice, and the crystallization of the wisdom of working people. By accumulating English idioms and proverbs, students have a deeper understanding and interest in the history, culture, religious beliefs and cultural works of western countries.
In the process of learning, students find that most proverbs contain interesting historical allusions or legends, and some idioms come from the Bible or Shakespeare's classic works. People get wonderful artistic enjoyment while receiving experience education. Teachers should not only guide students to learn, but also guide students to discover and appreciate the inner beauty in the works and the thoughts and feelings to be expressed by the author, and give students profound enlightenment with their profound ideological content and beautiful artistic realm.
Teaching people fish to meet their daily needs, English teachers should pay more attention to students' daily needs and development needs in teaching, and extracurricular activities should be student-centered and aim at students' lifelong development; The main goal is to cultivate students' learning strategies and teach them learning ability.
For example, in the exploration activity of "English is more exciting because of life", I asked each student to collect 10 English advertisements, store names, puns, English on the menu, words on the instructions of imported household appliances, sentences on the original movies, etc. Then organize demonstrations in groups, so that students' English learning is no longer limited to textbooks, so that students can observe more in their lives. Students show positive enthusiasm in such activities, not only accumulate a large number of English vocabulary, but also understand that "life is education" and life is our living teaching material.
In a word, if English teachers can regard moral education as one of the goals of subject education in the teaching process and infiltrate moral education into the process of language learning in a planned and purposeful way, it will lay the foundation for students to form a correct world outlook, outlook on life and values. At the same time, teachers should pay more attention to the design of various activities to train students to "learn to learn", stimulate students' potential, exercise students' thinking ability, realize the all-round development of students' personality, and truly achieve the unity of teaching and educating people.